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(ModeL) A. L. ADAMS.

CHEST OF DRAWERS.

N0. 296,905. Patented Apr. 15; 1884.

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ABE LINCOLN ADAMS, OF FLY CREEK, NEW YORK.

CHEST OF DRAWERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,905, dated April15, 1884.

Application filcd April 11, 1883. (Modem To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABE L. ADAMS, of Fly Creek, in the county of Otsegoand State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Chest ofDrawers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention consists of a contrivance of trays or frames for thedrawers of a chest, trunk, bureau, desk, or other cabinet article, forextension, either upright or inclined, by means of lazy-tongs attachedto the ends of the trays, together with an adjustable support on thecase and a latch device to hold the trays in extension to facilitateaccess to the drawers for packing and unpacking them, all as hereinafter fully described. 1

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a top view of achest of drawers constructed according to myinvention. Fig. 2 is partly a front elevation and partly a longitudinalelevation of the chest with the drawers folded down in it. Fig. 3 is atransverse section of Fig. 2 on the line a: as. Fig. 4 is a section ofFig. 2 on line 00 as, showing the drawers extended vertically. Fig. 5 isa section on line 00 a: of. Fig. 2, showing the drawers extended on anincline. Figs. 6 and 7 are side and edge elevations of the latch devicefor holding the drawers in the extended positions.

I connect the trays or frames a, in which the drawers 1) are to slide,together at the ends by the two systems of lazy-tongs frames 0, toenable the trays to be extended as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the cover dof the chest in which the trays are located being arranged to lift offwith the upper tray, and the two systems of lazy-tongs of each end ofthe trays being connected together by the parallel bars f, to stay themlaterally.

For alatch to secure thetrays in the extended condition when required, Iarrange a rod, under one of the trays, extending from end to end, andhaving a short crank, h, on each end,

that is pivoted to ashort bar, '5, pivoted to the next tray below, whichare to be locked together by the pin j, fixed to a spring, j, which isbent at one end next pivot-bolt k for increased length, to afford aneasy withdrawal of the pin j from its hearings in crank h and bar 1,said spring j being supported 011 the pivot-boltk by an eye or loop, andthe opposite end of the spring being bent over to form a finger-piecefor more easily operating it. The pin j may thus be drawn backward andset in the hole h of the crank it and in upper hole 2" in bar z, forlocking the trays in extended position; or the pin j may be set in thelower hole i and in hole h of the crank it when the trays are foldeddown:

,1 To make the middle tray to serve as a fulcrum on which the others mayswing into the inclined position represented in Fig. 5, and also toconfine them to the case when extended vertically, I connect it to theends 0 of the chest or case by an iron band, Z, attached to the edges ofsaid tray at m, and extending ranged to swing on pivots a, so as to beturned one side, to avoid scratching or marring the edges of the case bythe ends of the catches rubbing against them. Thela-tch gt will hold thetrays in extension, whether vertical orinclined, and the trays balanceeach other on the middle tray when set in inclination, thus making anefficient contrivance for facilitating access to the drawers for packingand unpacking. The case consists only of the bottom q, ends 6, and theremovable top d, the sides being closed by the front and back edges ofthe drawers and trays. The case, as shown, is more especially intendedfor holding the chest of drawers to fold down closely to the bottom (1by a sliding of the bands Z on the sides 6 of the case; but, if desired,a support formed of side frames of braced crossed legs in X form may beused to support the drawers, in which case the center tray may be fixedrigidly to the tops of the crossed frame-bars, and the trays above andbelow the center tray fold against it from top and bottom, leaving aspace below the lower tray when the drawers are closed instead of toeach crossed joint, as shown, the

drawers may be adjusted farther apart for better access to them, and thedrawers may be made deeper, if desired.

In order to avoid swaying corner-ways of the trays when they areadjusted, and to hold them with their fronts and ends vertically in linewith each other when extended, I shall in practice connect both innertoggle-bars of opposite pairs to abolt or bar running the whole'lengthof the trays, either through them or beneath them in suitable bearings,and let the outer toggle-bars of opposite pairs work loosely on thesebolts as pivots, the bolts themselves turning in their bearings topermit free working of the toggle-bars.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A slide-drawer chest having the cover (1,

ends e, and bottom q, the loose traysa, andthe tray a, made fast to saidends, in combination with the lazy-tongs c 0, connected together by barsff, and pivoted to the cover and trays, as shown and described, wherebythe trays a may be folded up to or drawn out from the fixed tray a, asspecified.

2. The combination, with the frames a, trays b, and lazy-tongs e, of therod 9, having at each end a crank, h, with hole h, the bar 2,

having hole a", and pivoted at one end to the crank and at the other tothe next tray-frame below it, the spring], carrying pin j, bent at oneend, and having an eye or loop, and the pivot-bolt 75, whereby theextended trays may be locked or unlocked, as described.

The combination, with the middle tray,

of the case having ends .6 and holes 0, theband Z, attached at m to saidtray, and extending

